| Frontispiece. Pont St. Bénézet over the Rhône at Avignon.
Built between the years 1177 and 1185. National Gallery of
Australia. |
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| Railway Bridge at Albi in France |
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| Pont Valentré at Cahors in France: the Fortified Gates
and Towers. Thirteenth Century. See also the second picture
of this Bastille Bridge |
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| The Alcántara at Toledo. Mainly the work of Archbishop
Tenorio, A.D. 1380; fortified by Andres Manrique, A.D. 1484.
Collection of Miss E. C. Rossignol |
32 |
| War-Bridge of the Middle Ages at Parthenay in France |
36 |
| Cannon Street Railway Bridge, London. Collection of the
Fine Art Society |
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| Old London Bridge. Begun by Peter Colechurch in 1176, and
finished by a Frenchman, called Isembert, in the year 1209 |
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| Old Bridge over the Clain near Poitiers |
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| At Albi on the Tarn in France. Showing on our right the
Old Houses, and beyond the Bridge, on our left, the great Old
Church, famous for its fortifications |
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| Tower Bridge, London. Collection of John Lane, Esq. |
80 |
| Famous Bridge at Espalion in France. Said to date from the
Eighth Century |
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| Pont du Tarn at Albi in France. Said to date from about the
years 1035-40 |
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| Pont de Vernay at Airvault, Deux-Sèvres. Famous bridge
with ribbed arches, French Romanesque Period, Twelfth Century |
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| Old Bridge over the Aude at Carcassonne in France.
Twelfth Century |
104 |
| Gothic Bridge at Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France |
120 |
| Ponte della Paglia at Venice. Renaissance. Collection of
R. Workman, Esq. |
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| Roman Aqueduct at Segovia in Spain |
184 |
| Huge Defensive Bridge at Córdova in Spain. Originally
Roman, but remodelled by the Moors in the Ninth Century.
Recently so much repaired that it looks almost new |
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| Old Bridge with Houses at Kreuznach on the Nahe,
Prussia |
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| The Rialto in Venice. Designed in 1588 by Antonio da Ponte.
Collection of the Fine Art Society |
212 |
| New London Bridge. Designed by George Rennie, and carried
out by his brother, Sir John Rennie. Opened to the public in
1831. Collection of Charles Holme, Esq. |
220 |
| Three-Arched Bridge at Venice, over the Canal of
St. Giobbe. Brick and stone. Renaissance. Collection of
J. Heaton, Esq. |
224 |
| Gothic Bridge at Barnard Castle, Yorkshire |
232 |
| Gothic Bridge with Shrines at Elche in Spain |
236 |
| Old Bridge at Espaly, near Le Puy, in France |
240 |
| Pont des Consuls over the Tarn at Montauban in France.
Fourteenth Century |
256 |
| Pont Valentré at Cahors-sur-Lot. Thirteenth Century. See
also the other picture of this Bastille Bridge |
264 |
| The Alcántara at Toledo. Showing the Moorish Gateway at
the Town end of the Bridge. See also the other picture |
284 |
| Spanish War-Bridge—the Bridge of St. Martin at Toledo.
Its history seems to date from 1212, but in the fourteenth century
it was rebuilt by Archbishop Tenorio |
288 |
| Ponte Nomentano over the Anio; a Mediæval War-Bridge
in the Campagna |
296 |
| Laroque on the River Lot, near Cahors. A sort of inland
Gibraltar; a part of the village is built on bridges thrown across
chasms in the rocks |
300 |
| Pont Neuf at Paris. Built in 1604, but much altered since the
Renaissance |
320 |
| The Tower Bridge, London. Albertina Collection, Vienna. See
also the other drawing |
328 |
| Pont Henri IV over the Vienne at Châtellerault in France.
Built by Charles Androuet du Cerceau, 1564-1609 |
332 |
| Pont de Tours, France. Famous Bridge of the Eighteenth
Century |
344 |
| On the Tarn at Millau in Southern France. Representing
the broken end of an old bridge with a mill built on it; behind is
an arch of the new bridge |
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